2021: A Year in Books

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29 Dezember 2021 - Adetswil

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This year I did not reach my goal of 50 books read, but I did read quite a lot of interesting things along the way. Quite a few of them I wrote reviews on, but some I just enjoyed. Here I'll give just a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

• 👍 Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward
• 👍 The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder - Henry Miller
• 👎 Arctic Festival in the Light and Darkness - Jonny Hansen (Translated from Norwegian by Gavin Tanguay)
• 👍 Rage - Bob Woodward
• 👎 In the Café of Lost Youth - Patrick Modiano
• 👍 Love is a Dog From Hell - Charles Bukowski
• 👍 Plainwater: Essays and Poetry - Anne Carson
• 👎 The Pearl - John Steinbeck
• 👍 No Filter: The Inside Story of How Instagram Transformed Business, Celebrity and Our Culture - Sarah Frier
• 👍 The Sixteen Trees of the Somme - Lars Mytting (translated from Norwegian by Paul Russell Garrett)
• 👍 The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
• 👍 The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• 👍 Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg and Nell Scovell
• 👍 Home Body - Rupi Kaur
• 👍 Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jaron Lanier
• 👍 Norma Jean Baker of Troy - Anne Carson
• 👎 Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way - Lars Mytting (translated from Norwegian by Robert Ferguson)
• 👍 Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition - Francis Fukuyama
• 👍 Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire - and how It All Came Crashing Down . . . - Ben Mezrich
• 👍 The Sagas of Icelanders
• 👍 The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage - Ryan Holiday
• 👍 The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House - Bob Woodward
• 👍 Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze - Abigail Shrier
• 👍 Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
• 👍 First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami
• 👍 Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia - Joshua Yaffa
• 👍 Yemen: What Everyone Needs to Know - Asher Orkaby
• 👍 The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime - Miles Harvey
• 👍 The Quiet American - Graham Greene
• 👍 The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene
• 👍 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson
• 👍 The Third Man - Graham Greene
• 👎 The Seaweed Collector's Handbook - Miek Zwamborn (translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison)
• 👎 The Premonition: A Pandemic Story - Michael Lewis
• 👍 American Kingpin: Catching the Bilion Dollar Baron of the Dark Web - Nick Bilton
• 👍 26 Dinge - Andrej Abplanalp et al.
• 👍 Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life - Ryan Holiday
• 👎 Troy - Stephen Fry
• 👍 Exhalation - Ted Chiang
• 👍 Courage Is Calling - Ryan Holiday
• 👎 Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement - Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, and Cass Sunnstein

And I currently have several books in progress, including one about Lorenzo de' Medici and one by James Clear. Some other facts:

• 41 books total
• 24 nonfiction / 17 fiction
• 3 books of poetry
• 7 about politics
• 5 about business
• 4 self help books
• Most read author is a 3 way tie between Bob Woodward, Graham Greene and Ryan Holiday